{"id":3182,"date":"2026-06-08T10:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T10:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=3182"},"modified":"2026-06-08T10:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T10:06:07","slug":"months-after-the-minnesota-ice-surge-the-backlash-is-driving-a-senate-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=3182","title":{"rendered":"Months after the Minnesota ICE surge, the backlash is driving a Senate primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Activists rallied behind the liberal lieutenant governor, while a moderate congresswoman says Democrats could lose the seat if they move too far to the left.<\/strong><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=3175\">Trump\u2019s birthday spectacle contrasts wildly with Biden\u2019s understated 80th<\/a><\/p>\n<figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3177\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5b796fa7168e64a1764f12cda48db468-1024x683.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5b796fa7168e64a1764f12cda48db468-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5b796fa7168e64a1764f12cda48db468-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5b796fa7168e64a1764f12cda48db468-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5b796fa7168e64a1764f12cda48db468-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5b796fa7168e64a1764f12cda48db468-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<figcaption>Federal agents clash with residents and rapid responders on Jan. 13 in Minneapolis, blocks from where Ren\u00e9e Good was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer. (Joshua Lott\/The Washington Post)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>ROCHESTER, Minn. \u2014 Ellen Goode was driving to meet a friend for lunch this winter when something caught her eye: masked federal immigration agents detaining a man near a field.<\/p>\n<p>She pulled over and started recording. The agents warned her to back up, but Goode kept filming until they drove away.<\/p>\n<p>What she witnessed shook her. \u201cSeeing the eyes, the face of the man who they had pulled over \u2014 he was terrified. I\u2019ll just never forget it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The encounter was one of thousands between everyday Minnesotans and federal immigration agents during Operation Metro Surge, the Trump administration\u2019s sweeping immigration crackdown in the state. The operation, which ended in February, captured national attention with images of mass arrests and the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens, Alex Pretti and Ren\u00e9e Good.<\/p>\n<p>Months later, Metro Surge\u2019s political aftershocks are driving Minnesota\u2019s Democratic Senate primary. The backlash has helped energize the party\u2019s activist base, boosted progressive Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan and turned Rep. Angie Craig\u2019s past support for Republican-led immigration enforcement legislation into one of the central liabilities of her campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The operation has also galvanized unprecedented participation in the party, with 57 percent of participants in this year\u2019s state convention first-time delegates. It was a record for new engagement after months of organizing around the immigration crackdown, and the party voted overwhelmingly to endorse Flanagan.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3178\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/94d1e40cf824cd1d7bc3b6fe79a9072c-1024x683.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/94d1e40cf824cd1d7bc3b6fe79a9072c-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/94d1e40cf824cd1d7bc3b6fe79a9072c-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/94d1e40cf824cd1d7bc3b6fe79a9072c-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/94d1e40cf824cd1d7bc3b6fe79a9072c-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/94d1e40cf824cd1d7bc3b6fe79a9072c-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<figcaption>Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, a U.S. Senate hopeful, takes a selfie with a room of volunteers during the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party Convention in Rochester last month. (Alex Kormann\/Minnesota Star Tribune\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3179\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7aed8fada75a1c71114a6112233cb814-1024x683.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7aed8fada75a1c71114a6112233cb814-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7aed8fada75a1c71114a6112233cb814-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7aed8fada75a1c71114a6112233cb814-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7aed8fada75a1c71114a6112233cb814-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7aed8fada75a1c71114a6112233cb814-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<figcaption>Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minnesota) arrives for a news conference to introduce articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem on Jan. 14. (Bill Clark\/CQ-Roll Call\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Goode was one of them. She came out in support of Flanagan and criticized Craig.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe has not been consistent against ICE,\u201d said Goode, a quantitative health sciences researcher in Rochester. \u201cWe were just so impacted and devastated all winter and it\u2019s been horrible. I mean, that\u2019s what got me personally into all of this stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Craig warns that the fury over Operation Metro Surge is not enough to guarantee that Democrats win in the general election. Outside the urban areas, Republicans still<b> <\/b>dominate much of Minnesota, with Democrats holding a one-seat majority in the state Senate and tied for control in the state House. Craig argues that Flanagan doesn\u2019t have the demonstrated ability to win over independent and Republican voters. Democrats have feted Craig in the past for repeatedly winning in a Republican-leaning district starting in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMinnesota is a purple blue state,\u201d Craig said in an interview. \u201cWe could lose if we\u2019re not careful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Numerous Democratic primary voters, elected officials and convention delegates said that the operation remains the driving factor in their support in the Senate primary. They pointed with frustration to Craig\u2019s vote last year for the Laken Riley Act, a Republican-led law mandating detention for undocumented immigrants arrested or convicted for theft and other crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic state Rep. Dan Wolgamott, who is running to be the state\u2019s auditor, initially endorsed Craig, citing her ability to win in a swing district. But he switched his endorsement to Flanagan in early May over Craig\u2019s vote for the Laken Riley Act.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe more I looked at her votes, the more I felt sick to my stomach,\u201d Wolgamott \u2014 who said his Hispanic father-in-law was harassed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents \u2014 said of Craig. \u201cPeggy would never ever in a million years vote for anything like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3180\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/40d88eb9679008931e765682da6fecc6-1024x683.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/40d88eb9679008931e765682da6fecc6-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/40d88eb9679008931e765682da6fecc6-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/40d88eb9679008931e765682da6fecc6-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/40d88eb9679008931e765682da6fecc6-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/40d88eb9679008931e765682da6fecc6-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<figcaption>Students rally outside the Minnesota legislature in St. Paul earlier this year to protest the fatal shooting of Ren\u00e9e Good and the presence of federal agents in the state. (Joshua Lott\/The Washington Post)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Craig has<b> <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/ice-agent-surge-minnesota-protests-federal-enforcement\/601591429\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/ice-agent-surge-minnesota-protests-federal-enforcement\/601591429\">expressed regret over her vote on the Laken Riley Act<\/a> and stressed her own opposition to Operation Metro Surge, including her resistance to fund the Department of Homeland Security during the shutdown and her push to impeach then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with a group of supporters in a brewery recently, Craig said her past agreements with Republicans did not make her any less of a fighter against the Trump administration\u2019s aggressive immigration operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can punch with one hand and I can extend with the other,\u201d Craig said.<\/p>\n<p>Craig\u2019s regret over the vote hasn\u2019t quieted concerns from primary voters. Wolgamott described the change of heart as a political calculation and \u201ctoo little, too late.\u201d Flanagan has jabbed at Craig for her changed stance. Onstage at the convention of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party \u2014 Minnesota\u2019s affiliate of the national Democratic Party \u2014 she condemned Democrats who \u201chave been weak\u201d and \u201ca pale shadow of our opponents,\u201d garnering some of the loudest applause of the event.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=3165\">Eriksen \u2018doing well\u2019 and expected to leave the hospital after on-field collapse, Denmark team says<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFolks want someone who is going to rip ICE apart and hold them accountable. And that\u2019s our campaign,\u201d Flanagan said on the sidelines of the convention, noting that she had the support of about three-quarters of all of the delegates.<\/p>\n<p>Craig said outside of Minnesota\u2019s deep-blue primary electorate, the party will have to confront an electorate driven by issues other than immigration, including an affordability crisis, economic pinches on the state\u2019s agriculture sector and, above all, fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have made fraud one of their central attacks on Minnesota Democrats following a major case involving the nonprofit Feeding Our Future. Federal prosecutors charged scores of people involved in the group in a roughly $250 million scheme that exploited pandemic-era child nutrition programs. The scandal battered Gov. Tim Walz\u2019s administration and contributed to his decision to end his reelection bid this year.<\/p>\n<p>Flanagan has highlighted the governor\u2019s work with the legislature to create new accountability measures to avoid future fraud. She rejected Craig\u2019s claim that she would be more vulnerable to attacks on fraud, arguing that any statewide Democrat will face Republican attacks over the issue, whether the nominee is Flanagan, Craig or another Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s interesting, and I say that in the most Minnesotan way possible, that Congresswoman Craig is just taking a page out of the Republican talking points,\u201d Flanagan said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, national Republicans are backing former sports commentator Michele Tafoya in the Senate race, while the state Republican Party endorsed former Navy SEAL Adam Schwarze. Craig argued that Tafoya could be formidable because of her name recognition from years on television, especially among male swing voters.<\/p>\n<p>Craig is still performing competitively by other metrics. She leads in fundraising, and more has been spent on ads supporting her than Flanagan. Several other candidates have also gone on to win the Democratic primary without the party\u2019s endorsement \u2014 including the 2018 Walz-Flanagan gubernatorial ticket \u2014 though Craig will be running without the party\u2019s resources or the support of any DFL-endorsed downballot candidates.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3181\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2cfdac90520cbecfbe0feead357f74c2-1024x683.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2cfdac90520cbecfbe0feead357f74c2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2cfdac90520cbecfbe0feead357f74c2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2cfdac90520cbecfbe0feead357f74c2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2cfdac90520cbecfbe0feead357f74c2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2cfdac90520cbecfbe0feead357f74c2-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<figcaption>Minnesota DFL delegates stand for the U.S. national anthem during the party convention last month. (Alex Kormann\/Minnesota Star Tribune\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Craig\u2019s backers cite her work for farmers at a time when many of them are facing economic strain and environmental pressures. Craig is the highest-ranking Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think that she\u2019s going to be able to pull greater Minnesota, and those are the votes that we need,\u201d state Rep. Ethan Cha, a Craig supporter, said of Flanagan. \u201cWe don\u2019t need a 10 percent margin in the Twin Cities. What we need is a 5 percent spread in the suburbs and in greater Minnesota.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Outgoing Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minnesota), who has endorsed Flanagan, suggested Flanagan may not need to carry the party\u2019s moderate appeal alone. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a more moderate Democrat, is running for governor, and Smith said Klobuchar at the top of the ticket could help draw voters who might be less inclined to support more liberal Democratic candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Outside the Rochester convention hall, the impacts of Operation Metro Surge are plastered throughout Minnesota\u2019s cities. Homes and car bumpers are covered with signs and stickers cursing out ICE. Goode, the medical researcher, said her community chats are still active organizing memorials and helping community members.<\/p>\n<p>James Leonardo, a Minneapolis resident, noted that immigration arrests are still happening in the city, even if they aren\u2019t as drastic as during Operation Metro Surge. Leonardo didn\u2019t say whether he was supporting either candidate in the primary, though he had a preference for Flanagan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCraig is positioning herself as if she\u2019s anti-ICE,\u201d Leonardo said. \u201cEverybody\u2019s kind of like \u2018woke\u2019-washing stuff and pretending that they\u2019re more progressive or left than they really are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Valentine and Tasha Riedman were both wearing anti-ICE T-shirts while walking their dog through Powderhorn Park on a recent morning. The park was the site of one of the largest anti-ICE demonstrations in January, and both said that immigration was still top of mind when thinking about the elections this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re definitely more Flanagan,\u201d Valentine Riedman said. \u201cCraig had some moments, too, during the ICE raid stuff that she did speak up a little bit, but not as much as we feel like Peggy did.\u201d<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=3162\">Manav Suthar picks up 6-33 on debut as India enforces follow-on against Afghanistan<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progressive activists have rallied behind Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, while Rep. 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